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Jason did not become a Kansas fan that fateful year, though, having already fallen in love with Derrick Chievous’ band-aid. Consequently, he went on to attend the University of Missouri and earned his BS in Biology. While at Mizzou, Jason spent his free time developing college football power ratings, scribbling bracketology notes, and working for the football team's video staff.

(To this day, Jason swears that he sketched out early ideas for what is now the spread offense after filming his Tigers gain exactly one first down against Kevin Hardy and Simeon Rice's Illinois team in 1994. But even though he looks not unlike Kliff Kingsbury, Jason's self-professed brilliance for offensive scheming hasn't quite gotten him an NFL head coaching job.)

After college, Jason attended law school at the University of Houston, where he mainly spent his time in the key role of office pool administrator for the student body. He never relinquished his obsession with analyzing sports, though, and soon began writing blog posts for Pro Football Reference. Eventually, he became a full-time NFL writer (and then managing editor) for The Big Lead, thus becoming yet another former lawyer who became a sports blogger.

Today, Jason serves as a writer, editor, and all-around content guy for TeamRankings. He revels in spelunking his way through data sets, trying his best to disprove conventional wisdom with facts, and sharing his findings in articles and over TR's social media channels.